Bandolero! Page #2

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When you select a rope...

- What are you looking at?

- You tell me.

- Hey, Robbie.

What?

I got a young boy here

who's worried about his future.

Yeah. I reckon he is at that too.

I hope to God that they don't dump

himself and myself in the same hole.

I have enough explaining to do up there

without having him along.

Fine pair of lookouts,

you and your pop.

Let me tell you something, Bishop...

...I've been on the wrong side

of the law for over 40 years...

...and I ain't been in jail long enough

to soften up a chaw of tobacco.

I ride out with you, and here I am

watching them build my own gallows.

Well, everybody else has had their say.

What about you?

It don't look too good, does it?

Ossie Grimes is the name, sheriff.

Down from Oklahoma to prove again

that the sins of the fathers...

...are visited on the sons.

That's true in Texas just like any place.

The Southwest will be

a better place when I'm finished.

Well, I'm July Johnson, Mr. Grimes.

I'm the one that sent for you.

This here is my deputy,

Roscoe Bookbinder.

- Glad to know you.

- Howdy.

Known him all his life.

Born in a hogan north of El Paso.

- A fine boy.

- Fine, fine.

Well, first off, sheriff, I'd like to see

the subjects, if you don't mind.

- The what?

- What? The... The subjects.

- The prisoners?

- In my professin, they're subjects.

In my jail, they're nothing.

Follow me.

Here they are, Mr. Grimes,

all ready for you.

Well, I'd have to say now...

I wonder if you fellas

would move forward a little...

...to the bars.

Would you come forward?

All right, do what the man says.

Ah...

Well, sheriff, seems like to me

you got four good necks here...

...that ought to snap pretty good.

I'm just not quite sure about this one.

How much do you weigh, son?

Uh...

- I don't know.

- You don't know?

Well, maybe it'll be all right.

I always like to do a nice clean job.

Usually when I have a lightweight...

...I strap on a 50-pound bag of sand,

get some weight on him...

...and then that neck:

Just like that.

How do you feel about it all, son?

- You're crazy.

- Now, you're not gonna be...

...praying and crying and all that stuff?

You'll just hold up the procedure.

Won't make it any easier

for me or you.

- This one Bishop, sheriff?

Yeah, that's him.

- You rode with Quantrill, did you?

- All the way.

And at Lawrence, Kansas?

- You were in on that?

- I was there.

You must have made your mother

mighty proud.

Hangman.

I never harmed a woman or a child.

We're planning on high noon tomorrow,

if that suits you.

That'll be fine.

You know, sheriff,

when a man in my professin...

...gets a chance to work with equipment

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